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Oct. 21 1924. I

W. F. KAYNOR STREET CAR TOKEN Filed March 29 1922 INVENTOR.

ATTORNEY Patented Get. 21, 1924.

WARREN F. KAYNOR, OF VJATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR 'IO WATERBURYsummon COMPANY, or WATIEBBURY,

CONNECTICUT, .A, CORPORATION OF CON- STBEET-CAR TOKEN.

Application filed March 29, 1922. Serial No. 547,647.

To all @072 am it may concern,

Be it known that I, WARREN F. KAYNon, a citizen of the United States,and a residentof Waterbury, county of New Haven, and State ofConnecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inStreet-Car Tokens, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to metal coins or trade-checks adapted to be usedas a substi; tute for mone and more particularly to an improved form ofstreet-car token.

One object of the invention is to produce a coin or check of the abovenature which will be extremely difficult to counterfeit.

A further object is to provide a device of this nature which will besimple, cheap to manufacture, and very ornamental and durable in use.

With these and other objects in view, there have been illustrated on theaccompanying drawing several forms in which the invention may beconveniently embodied in practice.

Fig. 1 represents a side vle-w of the two original metal sheets fromwhlch the com or check is to be formed.

Fig. 2 is a side view of the two sheets shown in Fig. 1, after they havebeen soldered together.

Fig. 3 is a side view of'the compos te soldered sheet showing itsappearance while it is being reduced in thickness by means of a pair ofpressure rolls.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of one form of composite rolled sheet fromwhich the C0111 or check may be stamped.

Fig. 5 is a perspective View of a slightly modified form of compositerolled sheet.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a streetcar token stamped from thecomposite sheet shown in Fig. 4.

Fig. 7 is a perspective view of a street car token stamped from thecomposite sheet shown in Fig. 5.

During recent years there has been a quite general adoption bystreet-car companies of six-cent fares, seven-cent fares, and otherfares requiring two or more pieces of money. In order to avoid thisunnecessary handling of coins and to facilitate the collection of fares,metal checks or tokens have in many instances been sold by street-carcompanies as a convenient substitute for the money fare. Most of suchchecks and tokens, however, were quite easy to copy, and this hasnaturally led to wide-spread counterfeiting.

With the present invention, the above difficulty is practicallyeliminated. Thus a trade-check or token embodying the principles of theinvention will be substantially proof against counterfeiting, as well asserviceable and ornamental.

Referring now to the drawings in which like reference numerals denotecorresponding parts throughout the several views, 10 represents arelatively thick metal strip to the surface of which a relatively thinstrip of metal 11 is secured by thesolder 12. The composite sheetconsisting of the soldered strips 10 and 11 is next passed through apair of pressure rolls 13 and 14, as clearly shown in Fig. 3. By thisoperation the metal of the composite sheet is reduced slightly inthickness and is made more compact. It is also hardened somewhat by theworking of the metal in the rolls. The thick metal strip 10, which ispreferably made of copper, forms the base or body of the completed coin,while the thin surface strip serves as the surface coating. While thethin strip 11 may be formed of a single metal, if desired, it ispreferably composed of a plurality of contiguous sections of differentmetals, each strip being preferably uniform in width. Any desired metalsmay be employed to form the individual sections of the strip, such asgold, silver, copper, nickel, German silver, etc. In the exampleillustrated in Fig. 4, the base strip 12 may be composed of copper andmay have soldered thereto a surface strip consisting of a pair of thinouter sections 15 and 16 of erman silver, and a central copper section17.

In the embodiment illustrated in Fig. 5, a slightly more complicatedarrangement of surface strips is illustrated. In this figure, a centralgold. strip 18 is surrounded in succession by a pair of German silverstrips 19 and 20, a pair of copper strips 21 and 22, and a pair of edgestrips 23 and 241; also of German silver. The-central strips l8-22 arepreferably of equal width, while the edge strips 23 and 24,. areconsiderably wider than the central strips. After the composite sheetshave been rolled to size, the next step is to stamp out the coinstherefrom, preferably by the use of a punch and die of suitabledimensions. The completed coin stamped out, of the composite sheetillus-. trated in Fig. l is shown in Fig. 6. Similarly the completedcoin stamped from the sheet illustrated in Fig. 5 is shown in Fig, 7.

\Vhile each surface strip illustrated on the drawing is of uniform widththroughout its length, it will be understood that the invention alsoincludes the use of surface strips of various lengths and whose sidesare neither parallel nor of uniform width.

lVhile-the trade-checks herein illustrated are shown provided .with onlysingle perforations in the shape of the letter C, it will be understoodthat any other form and number of perforations may be employed, asdesired.

It will also be understood that the invention is not limited to the useof .astriped metal layer conrone side of .the coinorrly, butif desiredboth surfaces of the coin may be provided with such a striped. layer.

The ratio of the thicknesses ofthe base and surface sheets may be variedthrough wide limits according to conditions. This I'atlO,: hOWBV.6I,should preferably be about 40:1.

WVhile there have been illustrated in this specification several formsin which the invention may be embodied, it is tobe understood thattheseforms are shown for the purpose of illustration only, and that theinvention :is not to be limited to the specific disclosures but may bemodified and embodied. in various other forms without depa-rtingf-romits spirit; In short, the invention includes all the modifications andembodiments coming within the scope of thefollowing claims.

Having thus fully described the invention, what is claimed is:

1. In a street-car token, a composite sheet comprising a. relativelythick metal base, and a relatively thin surface layer soldered to saidmetal base, said surface layer comprising a plurality of adjacentsections of dissimilar metals, said sheet bein hardened and reduced inthickness by subjection to pressure.

2. In a street-car token, a disk-shaped check having a relatively thickmetal base, and a relatively thin surface layer secured to said base,said surface layer comprising a plurality of contiguous sections ofdissimilar metals, said sections being of uniform width.

In a street-car token, the combination with a base, of a thin surfacelayer secured to said base, said surface layer being composed of aplurality of contiguous sections of dissimilar metals, whereby saidtoken will present an ornamental appearance and will be di'liicult tocounterfeit.

4;. In a trade-check, the combination with av metal base, of a surfacelayer comprising a plurality of thin strips of dissimilar metalsarranged side by side in the same plane, said trade-check beingdisk-shaped.

In a street-car token, the combination with a metal base, of anornamental metal surface layer secured to said base, said, ornamentalsurface layer being of parallel strips of dissimilar metals whereby saidtoken will be difiicnlt to counterfeit.

In testimony whereof, I have ailined my signature to this specification.

\VARREU F. KAYNOR.

